Man Utd resigned to losing Vidic to Real Madrid or Barcelona
Barcelona and Real Madrid are chasing Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic.
The Times says United boss Sir Alex Ferguson will try to talk Vidic out of leaving, but he is understood to be genuinely concerned that the player may have had his head turned by the idea of a move to the Continent and is unsure that even the offer of a lucrative new contract would be enough to persuade the 27-year-old to stay.
With Vidic contracted to the club until June 2012, Ferguson would be able to demand a huge fee for the centre back if the manager decided a parting of ways was the only route forward.
Given some of the exorbitant transfer fees last summer, it is unfeasible United would let Vidic leave for anything less than £30 million — more than four times what they paid Spartak Moscow for him in January 2006.
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Comments (13)
first of all this news is fake i havent seen it in manutd.com or any other football website and man united are not interested in selling one of their veryyyy best diffenders in the world we dont need the money ! we are not liverpool or arsenal if the player him doesnt want to go then we will keep him for life ! glory glory man united
B***S*** Reports, newspaper talk is 90% of the itme PURE speculation! and i bet this one is one of them...
stupid news, but if i was manager & I receive an offer of £35-40 Milion for Vidic i wud have given him a goodbye hug as soon as possible when Manchester United have Evans & brown in Line plus Kjaer & Gary cahill are targets
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